For this Day:

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....truth doesn't serve

If the truth doesn't serve us, what does that say about us? 
-Lois McMaster Bujold, author (b. 2 Nov 1949)

...foreign affairs

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. 
-James Reston, journalist (1909-1995)

alibi....

When the judgment day comes, civilization will have an alibi "I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with." 
-Will Rogers, humorist (4 Nov 1879-1935)